dvd burning?

Question

i have tried everything even Nero i put a dvd in my computer so i can try to burn my vidoes and i get this message saying No disc inserted into drive then i get another one saying drive D is not ready Please wait while the drive is ready and then ress retry can anyone tell me what im doing wrong.. i have even used Nero recode and burn and then when its it done my dvd is still blank

Answer 1

try this is you have windows xp

Right click on my computer the click properties - click hardware then device manager - click on the plus next to cd/dvd rom drives

right click on the offending drive then click uninstall

click ok and the warning

now click on the plus next to the ide ata/atapit controllers

ignore the primary and secondary channels

right click on the one that says controller - then uninstall - click ok on the warning then click yes to restart

when pc restarts it will say found new hardware and after a while the pc will ask you to restart again - restart

test your drive does this work

If not -is you drive shown in my computer ? if not then you may have a problem with the windows registry - a program may have added upper and lower filters.

if it is shown then this will not be the problem.

Click start then run - type regedit - on the left click on the PLUS next to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE >then SYSTEM > THEN CurrentControlSet > then Control > then Class > Look for a Value that starts with 4d3 (and loads of other numbers and letters) ends with 318 - you may have more that one - when highlighted there should be some values in the right hand pane - if you have lower and upper filters in there - right click on them a delete each - then click on file and exit and then restart your computer.

Also in the device manager double click on the primary id channel - then click on the advance settings - make sure both devices have for thier transfer mode DMA is available

The best way to see if it is a software or hardware problem is to create a bootable cd and then restart your computer - if it does not recognise it outside of windows then it will definatley be a hardware probelm
Try this link for a generic bootup disk - see below - if it asks for a master cd and has booted off it -

if this works then it will be a software related problem - try a third party cd reading program - goto www.download.com and get some from this site

if it doesn't then it points to a hardware fault

Hope this helps

Answer 2

Are you sure you have a DVD burner to start off with? A CD burner cannot burn DVD im afraid

Answer 3

Read these two.
http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/nero-dvdburn.htm
http://www.burnworld.com/

Answer 4

check your disk, it might have something on it already or is a bad disk.